Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...

The Kuiper belt is a collection of such bodies that orbits at the edge of the solar system. Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth ...

Bright yellow deposits in Consus Crater provide new evidence of Ceres' cryovolcanic history, reigniting the debate over ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Pluto likely acquired large moon Charon in a “kiss and capture” collision billions of years ago. It may have created a subsurface ocean on the icy dwarf planet.

In September 2023, a capsule containing the pristine asteroid ... in our solar system. Some of these bodies include Saturn's moon Enceladus and the dwarf planet Ceres in the asteroid belt between ...